Canada - 1859 5c vermilion "The Beaver". Negative glass support cliché with painted surrounding to highlight the design and create contrast, a unique item of great visual impact for exhibition; a new discovery about the work of Sperati, as this reproduction is unknown in the handbooks on his work; the vermilion colour used by Sperati typically increases in density and thus being able to provide a sufficient contrast to give a good matrix. (Image)
Opening EUR 500.00
Sold...EUR 1,000.00
Closed..Dec-06-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 1000
Sale No: 22DE
Lot No: 50024
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Canada - 1859 Jacques Cartier 17c, group of six items including one retouched master negative on film dated by Sperati "1/57", this being the most important item of this project and the basis to produce the clichés, four glass support clichés in different colours (blue, orange, black and silver grey), as well as one celluloid collective cliché of the target numeral 6 and barred oval. Sperati never finished this work, the left part of the stamp which was perforated on the design would have required a reconstruction work; thanks to the retouched master negative and its annotations we have discovered that Sperati undertook this project in January 1957, a few months before he died in April; A unique and most desirable assembly of this beautiful stamp, of great fascination for revealing what was hitherto unknown: this now has the status of being the last project of Jean de Sperati. The "Ultimate" collection sale of Sperati contained one working proof on paper and a exposure trial, coming originally from the daughter of Sperati; as the B.P.A. purchased part of his archive in 1953, no items are included in its collection. (Image)
Opening EUR 1,500.00
Sold...EUR 1,700.00
Closed..Dec-06-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 1700
Sale No: 22DE
Lot No: 50025
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British Columbia & Vancouver Island - 1865 5 cents: group of 37 items comprising the important retouched master negative on film, six celluloid clichés of which two transparent impressions, 11 glass support clichés including six reversed impressions, these all exhibiting a fascinating array of colours (rose, dark violet, black, sepia, orange); one tracing paper with cancellation of the barred numeral 35 and the "Paid" postmark, two celluloid clichés for the "Paid" pmk. and the oval "Post Office / Victoria Vancouver", six glass support clichés for the previously mentioned cancellations accompanied by nine printed ink trials with annotations. With regards to the stamps, the annotations indicate Sperati undertook the working process between November to December 1942, whereas the dates for the cancellations range from July 1943 to January 1953; by far the most significant assembly ever recorded - in fact, the B.P.A. only mentions one cliché dated in November 1942; only one exposure trial, which is a primitive step of the definitive reproduction of the stamp, and four single definitive reproductions were offered in the "Ultimate" collection sale of Sperati. (Image)
